Powers/Abilities: Telepath, telekinetic
-- needs to be able to concentrate to use this ability, making it
less than totally effective in combat situations.

History: (bts) - Tom Lennox was recruited
into S.T.R.I.K.E. Psi Division. There he met fellow telepath
Betsy Braddock and the two became lovers. When the agency was
infiltrated by operatives of the crimelord Vixen, the Psi
Division were the only ones who realised what was happening. The
group went on the run, Tom amongst them, and Vixen hired the
assassin Slaymaster to hunt them down and silence them.

(The Daredevils#3) - Tom cared for
Alison Double, who had collapsed in psychic shock after the death
of one of their number at Slaymaster's hands. Meanwhile his lover
Betsy Braddock called her brother Brian for help. While she
went to meet him at the McBurgers on Oxford Street, Tom and the
other survivors of the Psi Division hid out in the Forbidden
Planet comic shop just off the Charing Cross Road. But
Slaymaster caught up with them there, and murdered the rest of
the group, leaving only Tom and Alison. He closed in on Tom, knowing
that the telekinetic could not use his power without time to
concentrate, time he didn't have. Before he could administer the
fatal blow, Betsy's brother arrived in his guise as the superhero
Captain Britain, distracting Slaymaster from his mission.

(The Daredevils#4) - As Captain Britain and
Slaymaster duked it out, Betsy and Tom discussed what was happening
telepathically. They noted that the assassin was armed with
S.T.R.I.K.E. weapons, meaning that the Vixen must now control
that agency completely. Betsy revealed to Tom that the hero
currently ignoring a flamethrower in the face was her brother,
which shocked him. As the fight progressed, it becomes clear that
Captain Britain was losing. Using her precognitive abilities,
Betsy predicted that Slaymaster would soon cross over to just
outside the smashed window of the comic shop, and when he did
Tom blinded and confused him by hitting him with a storm of comics
and magazines. Given an opening, Captain Britain pounded the
villain into submission.

(bts) - Tom, Alison and Betsy moved into Braddock
Manor.

(The Daredevils#5) - The Special Executive came from
another dimension to take Captain Britain back with them to
Saturnyne's trial. Zeitgeist infiltrated the
mansion and using Cobweb's psychic prediction,
he located the insomniac Tom Lennox in the kitchen pouring
himself a glass of milk. Surprising
Tom by phasing his arms through the wall behind the telepath,
Zeitgeist smashed the telepath's head against the wall, knocking
him out.

(The Daredevils#8) - Tom and Betsy were having a
heated telepathic discussion about the insanity of her brother's
life when Captain Britain returned from his extradimensional
jaunt accompanied by deposed Omniversal Majestrix Saturnyne and
the varied non-human members of the Special Executive. As
Fascination started hovering around him, Tom expressed the opinion
that the place was an asylum, prompting an angry reaction from
Captain Britain. Just seconds later Linda McQuillan, the former
Captain U.K., arrives to warn them all of the impending genocide
that Sir James Jaspers was about to initiate.

(The Daredevils#9) - The group in the mansion
watched Sir James Jaspers on the television, making an
anti-superhuman speech. Fascination continued to fuss over Tom,
much to his and Betsy's annoyance. As the evening progressed, Tom
tried to get Betsy to leave with him while they still could, but
she was having a vision of the future, one which contained pain,
suffering, and death camps.

(The Daredevils#10) - The arrival of the killer
cybiote the Fury in the manor's ground caused the psychic Cobweb
to experience a violent fit. Tom watched helplessly as the
Special Executive tried to help her. Betsy sensed her brother's
terror when he confronted the Fury, and the rest of the group heard
the roar of the creature's blast weapon. Most of the Executive
raced outside to investigate, and Tom again tried to talk to
Betsy, but she was still connected to her brother and the battle
outside.

(The Daredevils#11) - The battle raged outside,
while in the manor Zeitgeist was trying to help Cobweb, still
suffering from her violent fit. Meanwhile Tom was trying to
console Betsy, who had been reduced to tears by her telepathic
impressions of the fighting and death so nearby. After the Fury
was temporarily defeated, buried under tons of rock in the caverns
beneath the manor, the group debated what to do next. The
Executive decided that it was time to cut their losses and bury
their dead, leaving Captain Britain, Saturnyne, Betsy, Alison and
Tom to head to London to deal with the Jaspers' situation.

(The Mighty World of Marvel#8) - Britain had
become a police state under the control of Prime Minister Sir
James Jaspers. The fugitive group were hiding out in a London
basement, in a city under curfew. When Tom asked Betsy if she was
all right after she returned with Saturnyne from raiding a chemist
for medicine for Alison, she cried out that of course she
wasn't alright -- England had gone insane, and none of them could
remember how long this had been the state of affairs -- days, or
even months?

(The Mighty World of Marvel#9) -
Captain Britain departed to confront Jaspers, leaving his
friends undefended when a group of "Beetles"
(S.T.R.I.K.E.'s armoured anti-superhuman squads) found the
hideout. Betsy sensed them just before they started to break in.
Tom ordered the others to run, while he waited behind to buy them
time. As they fled and the Beetles entered the basement, he
surrounded himself with a telekinetic storm of detritus. But he was
cut down in a hail of gunfire. Betsy was telepathically linked to
him when he died.

Comments: Created by Alan Moore and Alan
Davis.

As we discover years later in the Excalibur
comic, Fascination feeds off of strong emotions, particularly
negative ones, which finally explained why she hovered around
poor Tom in The Daredevils#8 and#9 -- she was feeding off his
annoyance! Given the brief nature of his encounter with the
Special Executive and his attitude towards them, I haven't
counted them as an affiliation.

At first Tom comes across as a bit of a selfish
character, trying to convince Betsy to leave with him and let her
brother deal with the impending Jaspers situation on his own. In
fact he is just a normal man (albeit a telekinetic one) unable to
cope with the bizarre and stressful situation he has been thrown
into, and he reacts to this with anger -- much like Captain
Britain. But his true nature shows through in his final stand
against the Beetles; all along his priority has been Betsy, the
woman he loves. Sadly his sacrifice has been forgotten by the
writers who have handled her since; after Alans Moore and Davis
stopped handling her, Betsy never spared another thought for the
man who gave his life for hers.